More Lil Bear Hug Quilts

 I'm joyfully involved in the Bear Hug Project initiated by Mary Johnson of Heartstrings.  You can read about it  HERE  .  I've spent some time catching up with some of my larger projects and now I'm back to getting more lil bear hug quilts finished and donated.

These 2 lil quilt tops were made by Teresa G.  I quilted and bound them.  One is quilted with diagonal crosshatch and the other is quilted with orange peel design which seems to be my favorite at this time for quilting sets of squares.   The backing is from a stripe I had in the stash and the colors matched perfectly.

the back......

My next set of  lil bear hugs #'s 19 & 20;  these started as orphan test blocks and have been hanging around for several years.  I added some strips to bring them up to size

the backs are from pieces of fleece

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-11-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Freebies - Suzy Quilts

lots of free patterns here; I especially like Cincinnati,

Ahoy Sailor and Thru the Looking Glass

Scrap Fabric Projects Archives - Suzy Quilts

Start here to discover 7 pages of tutes with handy 

little projects

Freebies — Sharon Holland Designs

small items

Tutorials — Sharon Holland Designs

many useful tips

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Help Challenge Quilt - finished !

 I learned all my free motion quilting skills from Angela Walters at Quilting Is My Therapy  by participating in her semi-annual challenges.  She keeps all the video lessons on her you.tube channel where we hope they can live on forever.  I have re-visited videos many times.

My "Help-How Do I Quilt It" Challenge was started Summer 2024?  I started with her center panel and the first feather border.  I thought it too pretty to stop there, surely it should be queen size!  So I fussed over more border styles until I finally settled on this pieced ribbon style border.  It was alot of work but miraculously fit wonderfully around the quilt without adjustments.

Here is a post when I had the project pin basted; ready for quilting on my "hand-guided" sit-down Janome.  If I remember correctly,  I started quilting in the center, got about 2/3 of that portion  quilted; then took a detour to make christmas projects !  Why does christmas quilting always take you thru January of the new year?!

This quilt spent much time sitting on my sit down machine table while I indulged in the Lil Bear Hugs project.  So far,  that will be an on-going mission in my life.

Okay, I had to get past this project,  so I could move on.  I devoted more effort to its finish, all the while telling myself to quit making queen size quilts!!!  In Angela's honor,  I did quilt it to death, Lots of Glide threads.  It finished at 90 x 99 !  It sure feels bigger than that.  I forgot to get a photo of the back fabric, it is a wide back I got at my LQS.  I love these ones with multiple colors that can compliment so many designs from the tops.  The bobbin thread was Bottom Line white/silver.  I just took a quick shot of the back that you can see from the tote the quilt is stored in at the moment.

On with the show ..........  photo heavy .  While I'm fmq, I dont feel that confident, I just keep on.  But when its all done and I look back, I think "Did I really do that?"........  always amazed.

Let's begin with some close-ups; scroll to the end for the full quilt.

 

The full quilt  - most of it

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 7-4-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Stitch Every Day with Lisa BongeanFreebies!

a few free patterns; child quilts with ducks

or elephants, etc.

Free Patriotic Quilt Pattern – Courtney McNamara Art

a great pattern for your scrappy patriotic strips

Quilt Blocks Galore!

a ton of blocks and a long time since I've

visited here

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

More Baby Quilts -

This post is a continuation of the Lil Bear Quilts Mission started by Mary Johnson.  You can read more about Mary's contributions here on her blog  HeartStrings Quilt Project

These are 2 more tops made by other quilters and sent to me for finishing and donating.  These tops were so sweet, I felt the urge to add borders and make them baby quilt/ car seat / stroller  size.

This first lil quilt was a 16-patch made and donated by Karen O'.  Lovely colors of aqua and orange prints.

I dug in the stash to find a perfect aqua fabric for the border and some black with tiny white dots for a separating border, bringing this lil quilt to 33 inches square.  I also had a perfect gray print for the backing and black & white plaid for binding.  I free motion quilted diagonal crossing orange peels with an arc ruler and silver Omni thread.  Yes, I had a delightful time with this one.  Thank you, Karen, O'.

This lil quilt top was donated by N. Lindsey. It was so cute, I just had to enlarge this one also.  I added an orange inner border and this black swirly print for the outer border. I free motion quilted it allover with overlapping circles to mimic the border print, a solid black for the binding and silver Omni thread.  It finishes 34 x 32.  Also, thank you, N. Lindsey.

Again, I had an appropriate backing ........ Gotta love having a stash

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-27-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Free Paper Piecing Patterns | WOMBAT QUILTS

lots of paper pieced star blocks plus 2 house blocks

Tutorials

some really great patterns here, unusual, Bert and Ernie,

Winnie the Pooh, animals etc

Bee My Sunshine - Bee Keeper's Farm Free Quilt Pattern

a sweet as can bee row quilt

Allegiance Stars of Glory Free Quilt Pattern

patriotic stars 

Kat & Cat Quilts: Tutorials

several fun projects; gotta do the 4 fat quarter baby quilt

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Orange Strippies - 3 & 4

 I'm still in the orange.  I nearly have the 5th flimsy assembled this month. This 5th one is identical to # 4 . It turned out that the project needed 1-1/2 strips of 9 fabrics to make a quilt; so instead of cutting 2 strips, I might as well cut 3 strips to yield 2 quilts.  It was only slightly tricky because the quilt needed 11 cuts and I was cutting them at 5-1/2" which only gave me 7 crosscuts per strata.  I solved that by cutting one of the stratas at 5" which gave me that one extra cut and interspersed them in the two tops.  I don't notice a difference.  It did make the project 2" shorter in length, so I added a border strip to the top and bottom.

So here is Strippie #3 flimsy - my favorite pattern these days - a trip around the world.  I love to free motion quilt them with the orange peel shape, so simple and quick.  It measures 47 x 56 .

Here is Strippie # 4 ( #5, not shown here, is identical to #4 ).  I have forgotten where I first saw this design, but Stephanie from Stashbusters has made a few, and I figured mine out from her photo.  This one measures   46 x 58 .  My first paragraph today is all about this flimsy.

That's it for me.  I should not have cut up all those orange strips because now I have 5 more tops to quilt up.  These are all quilts 4 kids and I know they will love the orange and purple.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-20-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Freebies - It's Only Fabric And Thread

a few really nice patterns; you have to submit your

email -  except for Gingham Flag came up automatically for me

The Colorful Fabriholic: Free Tutorials

some nice patterns; 4 patch shuffle and O'Tannenbaum

are my favs

The Colorful Fabriholic: Free Charity Quilt Patterns

quick and scrappy charity quilt patterns

Tutorials - She Quilts Alot

small items, gift items

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Orange Strippies 1 & 2

 It seems as I pulled the bulk of my orange fabrics for RSC, I was in a quick strippies sort of mood.  My oranges needed another pop of color, so I added a deep purple.

First up is this 2 hour - 5 fat quarter baby quilt.  It really does take only 2 hours and it's so cute.  Here is the free pattern if you want to make your own 2 hour baby quilt ,,,,,

                                            Two Hour Baby Quilt Tutorial – Storied Quilts

I pulled my unusual fq for this set, it looks a bit like fall, but it will make a nice stroller/car seat throw at 36 x 40.

This 2nd flimsy is a Villa Rosa Designs pattern called Snow Ruby.  It was also a quick and easy stripset design.  It will finish about 47 x 56; perfect toddler size.

I have 3 more strippie style tops to assemble before they join my quilting pile.  In the meantime....

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-13-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Sew Scrumptious: Sewing Tutorials & Free Patterns

several small useful, youthful patterns

https://www.hemmein.com/tutorials/

small items, some clothes, some 

quilted gifts and xmas decor

https://www.centerstreetquilts.com/free-tutorials/

a few quilts, lovely christmas tree runner 

and some seasonal holiday blocks

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

RSC - Orange is the new month

 I started out planning lots of quick quilts using orange, printed some plans; then cut the parts to one which should be quick to assemble...........  but got sidetracked.

So I am sharing these recently prepared split 9 patch blocks which are part of a donation to a guild in Calif for the LA fires.  Each split 9 patch block is 12 inches, so the  4-block arrangements are actually 24" each.  Some quilting gals helped me sew 40 blocks.  There are sets of orange, purple, blue & green.

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Blog - A Quiltery

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 6-6-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

FREE Quilt Alongs

a few free pieced patterns;  Christmas sweaters

doggone cute; bear paw, elephants

I lost track of this blog for awhile 

when she moved

BubzRugz: My Tutorials and Tips

christmas cards, so simple and cute; 

make your own washcloths;  scrapbaskets & more

Plum and June: Tutorials

unusual projects; pillows, photo corners scrapbook page,

small quilts, zippered bags

Quilted Delights - Tutorials

a gorgeous postcard, some paper piecing blocks

and some unique quilt patterns

Bloomers Sew Along - A Quiltery

a new bi-monthly sew along starting this month

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

Zoo Friends Baby Quilt & May Spring W.H.

 Here are my 2 final finishes for May.  I needed a baby quilt done quickly.  Since I am in the midst of so many projects, I decided to quilt up a sweet panel.  I know it feels like cheating.  I didn't feel like free motion quilting around all the elements in the panel,  so I walking foot quilted in 3 different directions.  I used a light gray Omni thread on the top and bottom line silver on the back, which actually sinks into the fleece backing.  I used a cute green with polka dots print for the binding.  It measures 34 x 42.  It is sweet and makes me smile.

I also finished a kit from Shabby Fabrics.  It is the paper pieced project for May.  It was alot of smaller sections to join together, but the kit was very well organized making it easy.  They gave you plenty of fabric.  The fabric for the binding was very plentiful and I used some of it to insert a smaller accent border between the piece and the final border.

I took more time free motion quilting this one. Did not use any rulers, but just let the shapes dictate what I wanted to stitch in them.  I used 4 different colors of Glide threads.  It measures 12-1/2 x 28 .

I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 5-30-2025

 

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

Patterns | ConnectingThreads.com

4 pages of quilting patterns

Free Quilt Patterns - Always Expect Moore

free quilt patterns and blocks;  my fav is the Prairie Air Quilt

Free Crochet & Knitting Patterns · 10,000+ Free Patterns | Yarnspirations

3 pages of quilting projects; my fav is "Happy Spring" on pg 2

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

RSC 2025 - January quilt finish

 I saw an example of this quilt on internet somewhere.  loved the color combo.  When Angela of Soscrappy posted late December that January's color would be pink,  I quickly got started.  I made 4 scrappy squares pink blocks in December, just to get that jump start.

Well, now its only late May and this quilt is all finished and ready for gifting to someone who hopefully loves pinks.  It finished at 45 x 55.  I quilted it with a pink shade of Glide thread.  I used a fun free motion design that I learned from Angela Walters videos.  You can see it in the center block of this Log Cabin block at the 18:08 minute mark of this video  Quilting Designs for Log Cabin Blocks - Video 3 of the Free-motion Challenge Quilting Along   It looks great stitched in a rectangle shape.  I quilted it over each grouping of the 8 pink square units.  I quilted a long frame in the brown sashing strips around the blocks  and a swirl around the outer border.

The back of this quilt is a pretty plaid printed fleece.  Maybe you can see the flow of the quilting better from this side.  I seem to always go right to the back of the quilts first just to see the quilting.

That's it for me today.  I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

Friday Quilt Hop * 5-23-2025

Welcome to the Friday Quilt Hop.

I hope you discover new inspiration today.

By Popular Demand Quilt Pattern - Simple Simon and Company

a modern style tatw - lap size

Free Patterns — Tula Pink

nice patterns,  LOVE the Storm at Sea

Sew Me: Scrumptious Brick Layer Cake Quilt Pattern

great pattern for using a layer cake

Sew Me: Mystery Medallion Quilt

a lovely quilt using one color family--lots of piecing

Sew Me: Tutorials

lots of commonly used quilt blocks

Wishing everyone a happy and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

City Square - center section

 City Square is the free summer quilt along offered by 4th and Main Designs.  You can find all the links here:       Summer Quilt-Along 2025 . 

In order to set myself up for another quilt along which began this week,  I pushed myself to get the center section together, so now I am caught up until June 9th.  I had to take the photo indoors which did not  compliment the fabrics as well.    Here is my center 48 blocks .....

I avoid sewing flippy corners aka corner triangles which often come out wonky for me and those waste triangles are just another diversion..  So, I did a little Nancy Zieman time (she always said her life was built in samples) and I tested out a work-around method.

I love to cut my half square triangles with the gocutter as they come out perfect.  But there is no die for this snowball so of course, I did a test block, then I cut all my hst with the die and I trimmed off the corners of the snowball square with the easy angle ruler.  I needed 2-1/2" triangles, so I used some painters tape to mark the 2-1/2" to line up on the side and the black corner at the top.  These little pieces can be sewn to those cutaway triangles I get from joining binding ends.

Here are the hst units ready to sew to the pre-trimmed corners of the snowball.  They fit perfectly.

Pressed the corners out and here is the perfect 6-1/2" snowball block ready to stitch into your quilt.

That's it for me today.  I'm joining these lovely linky parties this week.  Please be sure to visit them to see what other creative quilters are sharing.

Saturday -  soscrappy

                        Quilting Patchwork Appliqué           

Sunday  -  Quilting is more fun than Housework...

Monday   -   Small Quilts & Doll Quilts

                      Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

        Wednesday   -    The Inquiring Quilter

Thursday   -   quiltinglearningcombo.blogspot.com

My Quilt Infatuation

Friday  -  Alycia Quilts

I wish everyone a safe and creative week.  Thanks so much for stopping by.